Way cool coin story! (To me at least ;))

D

Today, an older gentleman (about a thousand years old, and his wife is nearly two thousand) who comes into where I work brought in some of his coin collection, he said it was a VERY small portion and he only went by old date coins. (IE: 1879 Morgans and such)

The reason he brought the coins in was, I informed him I was a collector when I saw his Morgan pocket piece he had carried since shortly after WWII and asked him if he collected.

He knew very little about the few coins he brought in, however, one was an 1883-S 5$ Gold piece, in awsome condition (In a non-pvc flip luckily!), he said he had it since he was a little kid. He also had numerous half dimes and an unc 1828 Half Dollar (Absolutely gorgeous coin, clearly not cleaned) Some darkside ounce of gold in a Bezel, and about a dozen mixed date Morgans. (A few S mint marks and one O, 1890) Most were in fairly good condition, out of the dozen Morgans, I'd say three went unc and one was AU. All of the coins he has collected were out of circulation after he opened his smoke shop after WWII. He says he's got quart jars of Indian Head pennies that he filled up in the 30s and 40s. (Says it took him around a month for each jar!) Anyways, he was amazed when I informed him of the prices of just a few of the coins he had and said he'd be glad to bring more in.

I just felt like telling this to you folks since I thought it was an absolutely awsome story .

-Daniel

Garneteye

Hedger

Quart jars of Indians! Oh my. I'll bet there are some nice original goodies in them.

majorbigtime

<< <i>Today, an older gentleman (about a thousand years old, and his wife is nearly two thousand)

(In a non-pvc flip luckily!), he said he had it since he was a little kid.
-Daniel >>



This doesn't ring true--filps were non-existant 25 years ago!

Crazy4Coins

I'd like to see the 1828 Half dollar. Have your camera ready next time he comes and post some pics here for us to see.

mgoodm3

Always fun going through that kind of stuff.

D

majorbigtime, let's pretend people move their coins every once in awhile . I didn't ask where he got the flips, it just was in one for awhile he said. Clearly no damage to the coin was done by the flip thus far, so the assumption by me was, it's not a PVC flip. Just to clarify!

Edit: I told him to fish through the Morgans and look for 1893s, and any with a little CC under the Eagle on the back . As well as odd looking things on 1921 Morgans .

Those were the best suggestions I could think of, he didn't really even know about the Carson City mint Morgans until I was talking about them .


-Daniel

mjhoffpauir

Very nice story...let us know what you pick up...

carl

Maybe you could point that really old, old person to a place where he could acquire a book like the Red Book so he could get an idea of what all that stuff is worth. Or if you flet generous you could just buy him one and maybe the very old person will give you some of thoes old coins. By the way if yor working you couldn't be that young to think of all us old people as in the thousands of years old. Maybe a few hundred though. It really is a cool story. Wonder just how much he has salted away?

Myqqy

This doesn't ring true--filps were non-existant 25 years ago!

Easy there, kojak.....

D- if you get any pics of the coins, post some!

D

He says he has a few hundred dollars in face value of Morgans.

I offered to go to his house and check the coins out and bring some books over for him if he didn't want to bring them in 12 at a time . (It's kind of dangerous if people start figuring out his little green bag has coins in it )

Edit again~ I'm still shopping for a camera for the coins, hopefully I can buy JrGMans old camera within the next week, I'd love to snap a few photos!

-Daniel

MrHalfDime

Never mind the flips and the Morgans. How about the half dimes! Let us know what you find out about them.